Soccer (Closing)

Chelsea are the poster boys for where Chelsea have gone wrong

Can we convince Boehly to sign the Glazers?

I just want to see fun competition. Eredivisie is high enough a level for me.

I do recognize I'm in the minority, though.

Cant even win that title as an United fan. The rivalry is on.

I mean, ignore my flair for a bit, but that's how loans usually work. 10% interest on 10k loan is 1k profit. 2% interest on 100k loan is 2k profit.

That is just doing simple calculation without factoring in duration of loans.

Also, RM and Barca(till recently) have been able to pay all those loans easily (except in some situations), and again they still pay whatever they make. There's no State/Billionaire pumping 10-20 mil in bogus sponsorship to bail them out(again, until recently).

What you're alternative is let RM make 100mil a year but they can only pay 30mil to their staff/players combined. What would they use 70mil for ? To pay dividends? Which they do btw. But I would rather see those pushed to employees (players/staff) than going into board's pocket.

And the result of this is that we can afford to offer thise wages, even taking loans, which btw, we took for renovation of Bernabeu.

I cannot think of one example where we took loan to pay wages as suggested.

Your loan example doesn’t really make sense. Why would the choice be between loaning 10k at 10% or 100k at 2%? You’d loan ten lots of 10k at 10% and make 10k profit rather than 2k.

And profits don’t go to the board, the board is just representatives for shareholders.

yeah but his analogy sounds more fun and exciting

Honestly, the biggest criticism about Real and Barca hurting the sport/la liga were negotiating their own tv deals instead of doing it as a whole. We see the EPL now reaping those benefits when small teams in the EPL have bigger budgets than most La Liga teams

The Championship is a superb league. The quality might not be as good in terms of talent compared to the PL, but it is far more entertaining.

Eh, high quality football is also “””boring””” and data driven. So many cool football moves are as good as outlawed. You don’t need to look further than classic nr. 10 being a dying breed, replaced by players best described as ‘pressing machines’.

Much bigger problem/reason is that lower leagues aren’t media talking points(let’s face it, sports are men’s reality TV shows), finding a broadcast is hard, etc. It’s just much harder to get into if you aren’t local.

So funny to see english fans argue who the worst team is in their league. Meanwhile, football is fucked anyway and its a business first and a sport second, so no matter if its the Saudis sportwashing or an American pumping billions into it, the image of that pure, innocent and local football sport is long gone.

Barca literally sold their future income and merchandise rights for quick money. The gambled on short term success.

I’m just amazed how they always pick the perfect Boehly photo for any topic.

Yeah they just did that slightly earlier than other clubs, earned lots of trophies and international fans and now you cannot criticize the clubs because of their "prestige"

Neither me or the person I responded to mentioned loans to pay wages. Did you mean to respond to someone else?

Like what?